Kellett estimated roughly 3,300 visitors would come to Whiteface on Wednesday. He said that's about 2,000 more people than they've seen on an average weekday so far this season. He said 900 people visited Sunday ahead of the snowfall.

"Families want to come to Lake Placid for the winter experience," he said. "We see them come for a couple of days and stay in the area. They'll usually ski two or three days then experience the other activities in Lake Placid."

The Taylor family skied at Whiteface Wednesday. They said they coordinate family trips around school and work schedules, which can be a bit hectic when Mother Nature doesn't cooperate.

Aaron Taylor said his two daughters had time off school this week. The girls' school schedules are the primary factory when finding a time to get away together.

"We look at the school schedule at the beginning of the year and try to plan any sort of vacation around that," he said. "Unfortunately, a lot of other people do that too so you have to coordinate with your colleagues to cover for you."

He said, in his experience, people tend to be pretty flexible with co-workers who have school-age kids. The family members said they were worried the warm temperatures would prevent them from a day of skiing together.

"We've been waiting and waiting for the snow and ice to come," skier Frida Taylor said. "Finally, there's one day we can to go skiing so we drove two hours up from New York."

She said her family wanted to come to the mountain because of its Olympic history and because it has the best conditions they could find.

Kellett said warm, humid temperatures have made for a challenging start to the season.

"It's been a battle operationally to get snow on the trails," he said. "We've been very fortunate to have an amazing crew to when we do get those small windows of opportunity to put snow down on the terrain."

Kellett said he expected even more visitors to come to the mountain during the weekend.